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The news of Martin Parr<\/strong>\u2019s passing deeply moves Sirmione<\/strong>, coming just over a year after LIFE\u2019S A BEACH<\/a><\/strong>, the exhibition held at Palazzo Callas Exhibitions in collaboration with Magnum Photos<\/strong>. Parr always knew how to leave a mark. Wherever he went, he carried with him not only attention and curiosity, but also disorienting interpretations capable of sparking debate. Il Giornale di Brescia<\/em> recently revisited his career in an article that highlights Parr\u2019s time in Sirmione.<\/p>\n \u201cMartin Parr\u2019s career also passed through Brescia, between his shots on the beaches of Sirmione<\/strong> and the controversy surrounding the publication in Britain of Gian Butturini\u2019s book London. The great English photographer and documentary-maker died yesterday at the age of 73, from a cancer diagnosed four years ago. A storyteller of the daily life of the middle class\u2014of what he defined as \u2018the sublime ordinary,\u2019 skirting the edge of bad taste\u2014he became famous for his series dedicated to the homes of Manchester\u2019s working middle class, to working-class holidaymakers, to days at funfairs or shopping centres, as well as for his reportage on sporting events (tennis tournaments, with the camera aimed at the stands), his fashion work (he contributed to Vogue), and his involvement in music (in 2003 he directed a music video for the Pet Shop Boys). In 1994 he joined the Magnum agency, of which he was president from 2014 to 2017, and he founded an organisation bearing his name that houses his photographs and his collection. He visited Sirmione in 1999 and again in 2022 for his project on beaches around the world, celebrated in 2024 in an exhibition hosted at Palazzo Callas on the Garda peninsula. Alongside the shores of Goa, Rio de Janeiro, Acapulco\u2026 were the images he took on the pier of Lido delle Bionde and at Jamaica Beach, among swans, swimmers and sun-seekers<\/strong>. \u2018I am very happy that my work is being shown there,\u2019 he said in a video message for the exhibition\u2019s opening. \u2018I have been there twice and it has always been fascinating.\u2019 [\u2026]\u201d (Translated with Chat GPT)<\/em><\/p>\n
\nA joyful, sun-drenched showcase infused with his unmistakable irony; a special edition enriched by photographs Parr had taken in Sirmione itself\u2014an experience he recalled with affection, and which now resonates as an even more meaningful tribute.<\/p>\n